AU Libraries offers Savvy Researcher Boot Camp

Auburn University Libraries will hold its Savvy Researcher Boot Camp, online (via Zoom) on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The daylong event is designed for graduate students who want to take their research skills to a higher level. Whether students are interested in learning how to locate scholarly sources in their field, write a literature review, manage data, organize citations or present their research, the Savvy Researcher workshops will help them become better, more effective, researchers.

The Boot Camp features a lunchtime session, Launching Your Career: Essential Skills for Job Market Success (offered by Sheena Stewart, Director of Professional Development, AU Graduate School).  

Workshops offered include:

Intro to Writing Literature Reviews (offered by University Writing)

Citation Managers: Zotero | Endnote

Conducting a Literature Review: Search Strategies

Power Searching Engineering Village (Ei Compendex)

Introduction to SciFindern & Reaxys for Chemistry Research

Google Scholar Tips and Tricks

HathiTrust: A Power Tool for Finding Online Original Sources

NEW: Intro to Covidence

Responsible Use of AI Research Tools

Presentation Skills and Software

Creating Graphics and Video using Adobe Creative Cloud

NEW: Design Principles

NEW: Basic Excel for Graduate Students

NEW: Intermediate Excel for Graduate Students

Intro to Qualtrics

Intro to LaTeX

LaTeX: Bibliographies, Images, & Tables

Library Services for Graduate Students

Foster Success as a Graduate Student  (offered by Academic Coaching) 

Register online